Megan Elkins is a program officer for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Michigan. In this role, she works in the foundation’s priority place of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to support thriving children, working families and equitable communities.
As a program officer, Elkins identifies and nurtures opportunities to effect positive systemic change within communities. She is also involved in the development of programming and leverages WKKF strategy to conduct grantmaking for the organization.
Previously, Elkins served as the associate director of ecosystems change at Prosperity Now, a national nonprofit dedicated to expanding economic opportunity to low-income communities. There, she developed proposals and scopes of work for systems change racial wealth equity projects. From December 2020 to June 2023, she also worked as a manager of team member services at Goodwill Central Texas, where she developed an employee services program for more than 2,000 workers. Other previous positions included director of talent pipeline success at Workforce Solutions Capital Area from January 2019 to December 2020 and project analyst for Community Investment and Workforce Development at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion Ascension Seton Texas from May 2018 to December 2018.
Elkins holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from New Mexico State University and a master’s degree in public administration and urban affairs from the University of Texas at Arlington. She has over a decade in experience working for equity in education, housing, health, family stability and workforce development.
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF), founded in 1930 as an independent, private foundation by breakfast cereal innovator and entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg, is among the largest philanthropic foundations in the United States. Guided by the belief that all children should have an equal opportunity to thrive, WKKF works with communities to create conditions for vulnerable children so they can realize their full potential in school, work, and life.
The Kellogg Foundation is based in Battle Creek, Michigan, and works throughout the United States and internationally, as well as with sovereign tribes. Special attention is paid to priority places where there are high concentrations of poverty and where children face significant barriers to success. WKKF priority places in the U.S. are in Michigan, Mississippi, New Mexico and New Orleans; and internationally, are in Mexico and Haiti. For more information, visit www.wkkf.org.